Definition of "individualist"

individualist

noun
plural individualists
1. Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
2. Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
3. Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
  Quotations
  However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
  1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14
  Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.
  2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, page 18